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Sure you're right, I can't claim god doesn't exist 100% but I feel comfortable doing so either way.
Yes, that is considered hypocrisy but I see it as justified due to the other points I've made.
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Ok, but I can't really argue against you saying you're contradicting yourself but are okay with that. Also I defend religion because people criticize it. I don't attack people for criticizing it. I provide a defense for it in a discussion/debate. I like debates. I learn from challenging others' opinions and them challenging mine. If anything, I think it makes me less of a snowflake since I'm actually wanting to get down and dirty and challenge ideas - both mine and others. I don't need a safe space. Name-calling is always a good cue that someone doesn't have a good argument to make.
Yeah like I said, there's no proof.
People thinking they saw something and claiming things without there being any form of actual proof says enough.
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How do you think history works? People wrote about what they saw and experienced, and much of our knowledge of history comes from letters, books, and other writings from historical figures and those around them. Backed sometimes by artifacts from back in the day such - which I would like to note we have historical artifacts of things from the Bible. You can give whatever merit you want to writings in religious books, but to say that writings from history have no credibility is to dismiss all of history.
People can do whatever they want with their lives, I just think it's stupid/stupidity to believe in stuff like this to the point where one is willing to devote their lifes to it and follow certain rules just because some other human made all of this stuff up with anything proper to back it up.
There's tons of things we don't know yet but if you actually think a god that humans made up exists then I feel sorry for those people in that regard
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What's stupid about trying to better yourself? That's ultimately what religion is; a prescription for how to live a better life and to be benevolent towards others. We follow the American Constitution and have based the entire country off of it. People honor those rules made up by humans. People die for those rules made up by humans.
Also, I don't think it's a far-fetched idea that there's something greater than humans. You really think that we are it? Humankind is the ultimate life in the universe? We are so limited, physically and mentally. And then how did the world or the universe come into existence? Was it always? The idea of a big bang that creates living organisms all of a sudden make sense? What about our souls? Is that something that dies with you? Does that mean it's nothing special and can be recreated with AI, or is it something more, and is why AI can't ever be a true replication of a human? Humans know so little that to only give merit to ideas about what we know seems like such a waste. Even outside of religion, the things that we don't know is what fascinates me the most.
Anyone who wants to see something interesting, look up the double slit experiment on youtube.